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I'd love to see more studies like this, because it sure feels like an obvious truth to me. Being a relatively new parent, I have observed on many occasions kid

I'd love to see more studies like this, because it sure feels like an obvious truth to me. Being a relatively new parent, I have observed on many occasions kids going from peaceful and well mannered, to completely crazed and manic in mere minutes after being exposed to large amounts of sugar. I always wondered what kind of chemical thunderstorm was going off in their brains to account for the totally random, thoughtless, crazed monkeys they become.

ZeroFries 11y ago
Actually it's been pretty heavily debated whether that effect actually exists at all: http://www.webmd.com/parenting/features/busting-sugar-hyperactivity-myth http://www.webmd.com/parenting/features/busting-sugar-hypera...
cafard 11y ago
An MD I asked about this said that sugar actually has something of a sedative effect, and that kids getting wound up on candy is usually attributable to the caffeine in chocolate.